Floating Forest
Floating Forest
Borneo, 2026
Hand-blown glass and underwater photography
Floating Forest began with my fascination with mangrove propagules: living structures that can drift for months on tides and currents before changing orientation, anchoring and becoming the beginnings of new forests.
Developed through fieldwork in Borneo, the work reflects the extraordinary scale of potential held within these small travelling bodies. Each feels like a charged vessel, suspended between movement and settlement, vulnerability and force, individual life and entire ecosystem. A single drifting form carries the possibility of roots, shelter, sediment, shifting tides and multispecies worlds.
Through field observation, underwater photography and glassmaking, I explore how ecological behaviours such as buoyancy, suspension and transformation can move into material and image-based form. Photographed underwater within the mangrove ecotone, the glass forms are shaped by light, water, roots, reflection and the living presence of the site.
Floating Forest follows the fragile moment before anchoring, when life is still fluid, still becoming and still carrying worlds within it.
Tidal Propagule
Handmade glass sculpture, underwater photography, Borneo, 2026.
Created between mangrove ecosystems and a nearby coral reef site, Tidal Propagule explores buoyancy, tidal movement and ecological regeneration. The work brings glass, underwater photography and digital image-making into dialogue, producing an image shaped by light, water, material and the living presence of the site.
This shows a glimpse into Floating Forest work, further installations and images in development.
This work forms part of an ongoing practice that translates field observation and sensing into material and immersive encounters, revealing overlooked ecological relationships.